Nina
tells her the world's not ending, it's just changing. That when
the earth shakes, causing building to crumble and driving them to
find cover, it's god's way of clearing out the land for the good
and strong to survive, of which both of them are.

How
they managed to find each other is a mystery to her, but Nina said it
was god's way of telling them that there was more out there than
hopelessness. Once, when Anne was feeling more lucid and less
childlike, she asked her if she had always been this religious. Nina
had just laughed and asked if it mattered. Anne thought it did, but
didn't want to say anything to upset her.

Once
in a while, Nina leaves before dusk and doesn't come back for a few
days. It's at these times Anne worries the most. She spends the
entire time she's gone trying to remember if she said or did
anything to make Nina mad at her. So far, she can't see a pattern,
but maybe she's missing it.

Sometimes,
they sit and tell each other stories of heroes. Hers are about a
supergirl who was chosen to fight the demons, with blonde hair and
green eyes. Her name was Buffy, but she went by Anne once, too, and
how actually, that's how she got the name. Nina's are about a
vampire, but a good one, who ran a law firm and once got turned into
a puppet.

Other
times, it's stories about a man named Gunn who only ever wanted to
help and put his life on the line to save others who would have
thought he was the reason LA was such a dangerous place to live, or a
girl named Fred who was so nice and went out of her way to comfort
people for as long as they needed when people were bugging her about
the other things she had to do.

But
most of the time, they just sit close and wait for the tremors to
pass before curling up together and going to sleep, both dreaming
about a better time, maybe in the past, maybe in the future, but it's
a time when they are happy, together and not living in terror every
day, fearing it could be their last.

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